Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - The O'Reilly Update, February 14, 2025

Episode Date: February 14, 2025

Trump announces reciprocal tariffs, RFK joins Trump’s cabinet, gold bars found, and an aircraft carrier collision. Plus, the Message of the Day, on the DOGE Committee hearings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Thank you, Bill. It is Friday, February 14th, 2025. Happy Valentine's Day. Here's what happening today in America. Reciprocal tariffs. Another post-filled, gold bars found an aircraft carrier collision. It's all coming up. Then Bill's going to be it with your message today. But first, Donald Trump announcing what he's calling reciprocal tariffs. He is calling on his administration to determine the equivalent of a reciprocal tariff with respect to each foreign trading partner. So the administration plans to impose tariffs on other countries. that match the duties that they impose on American products. Trump officials stressed the benefit of addressing this on a case-by-case basis, saying, quote, it opens the door for each country to correct the unfair trade practices that they are engaging in. Tulsi Gabbard and now RFK Jr. have been added to the Trump cabinet. Linda McMahon had her hearing yesterday to be the Secretary of the Department of Education, which is an interesting one because Trump and she both want to eliminate the department entirely.

She will make it through. The only wildcard now is Cash Patel, head of the FBI. The Democrats are very afraid of Cash Patel, but yesterday he advanced past the Judiciary Committee. So far, 15 of Trump's cabinet members have been confirmed. At this point in Joe Biden's presidency, he only had six confirmed. Still to go, ag, commerce, small business, labor, trade, and the UN ambassador. The head of the EPA, Lee Zeldin, said that they found $20 billion in grant money, money that the Biden administration was handing out as they were walking out the door.

The $20 billion in grants was given to what's called the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, more commonly known as the Green Bank. The money is intended for competitive grants to nonprofits, community development banks, and other groups for projects with a focus on disadvantaged communities. Republicans call it a slush fund. You can only imagine the kickbacks. Kudos to James O'Keefe. There was an undercover video that he made about two months ago of an EPA staffer

saying that the Biden administration was, quote, tossing gold bars off the Titanic in order to spend billions of taxpayer dollars before Donald Trump took office. Well, Lee Zeldon and the EPA found the gold bars. Zeldon said the days of irresponsibly shoveling boatloads of cash to far-left activist groups in the name of environmental justice and climate equity are over.

The aircraft carrier, USS Harry Truman, collided with a merchant vessel in the Mediterranean Sea near Egypt. the 100,000-ton aircraft carrier collided with a 53,000-ton merchant vessel. 5,000 sailors are on that aircraft carrier, no injuries reported. I'm Mike Slater from the podcast, Politics by Faith.

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sitting in my living room watching the House Doge hearings. I wanted to be anywhere else, but I hung tough for a while. Finally, I bailed. Listening to Simpletons is simply not my thing. I don't watch the view either. House Democrats on the Doge Committee do not want spending oversight. They don't want foolish programs cut. They object to downsize.

the incredibly bloated federal workforce. Okay, Americans voted them out, facing an unprecedented $37 trillion national debt that had to be done. But the lefties won't shut up. Doge is unlawful, they say. Elon Musk is running the government, they wail. Our Constitution is being destroyed.

So much stupidity, So little time. Democrat icon Franklin Roosevelt did the exact same thing Donald Trump is doing. He brought in a bunch of unelected guys to advise him about the depression in World War II. Harry Hopkins and the crew had no direct power, had no direct power other than access to FDR. The left had no objection to that. This entire Doge thing could be very good for the American people. or it could go south. So let's give it a chance. Reasonable? I'm Bill O'Reilly. I approve the message

by writing it. You can reach me. Bill at bill o'Reilly.com. Bill at bill o'Reilly.com. Name in town if you wish to opine. Let's go to the mail. We got James Knickerbocker, Doylestown, Pennsylvania. Hey, Bill, if a president can revoke an executive order, what's the point of signing them anyway? because you get four years to do what you want. And then if the next president comes in and he's a opposing party, could overturn him, but maybe not. You see what goes.

James concierge member, now this is important. If you sign up a concierge membership on bill o'Reilly.com and you get into trouble, my team will help you. Just today, and this was an amazing thing that my producer did, We got a refund for a guy through the IRS. I didn't think it was possible.

But we got it. And it was pretty big. So that's what we can't do it all the time. We don't have a magic wand. But you know to check out concierge membership on Bill O'Reilly.com. Anyway, James says, this way Senator Schumer announced, we know there has always been fraud and abuse,

but there is a correct way to address it. Well, Chuck, what have you done about it for the past, so and so years. Right. It's an excellent question. Chuck's done. Nothing about it because he doesn't care about it, just like President Biden didn't care about it. Wayne, concierge member, thank you, Wayne. Normally, Bill, I would agree that vengeance is beneath the president. However, Donald Trump has been so maligned abused by both the media and the legal system that if he does not take vengeance and hold these people to account, then this will become a way of life in America. What an excellent point you're making, Wayne. So it's retribution, but you're making a very strong point.

If Trump just let it go, they'd do it again. Now, a lot of these people are going to pay a price. I'm with them. I don't want the petty stuff. I wouldn't have thrown out the AP reporter because the AP won't say Gulf of Mexico, Gulf of America, small bull. But big things, I'm with Trump. In a moment, something you might not know. This episode is brought to you by San Pellegrino Chau. A new kind of flavor of sparkling water. The kind made with real fruit juice,

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While the holiday is commonly associated with Cupid, its origin goes back centuries. It was originally an ancient Roman ritual for fertility. The bizarre event was called the celebration of the wolf. Villages across the Roman Empire picked a day in early spring when young women would be beaten with animal peltz, then paired off with random men by lottery. And you thought disco was bad. In the 5th century, the Pope replaced the pagan festival with the day honoring St. Valentine. A few hundred years earlier, the Italian priests openly defied.

the Roman Emperor. At the time, the ruler decreed that only single men could be drafted into the Roman army. Against his orders, Valentine married hundreds of Christian couples to spare the husbands from conscription. Well, the bishop was eventually dragged before the emperor, whose name was Claudius the Cruel, never a good sign, and the cleric was being. headed. The first official Valentine's Day card dates back 700 years. It features the Roman God of Love, Cupid, thus stationary still on display at the Lour Museum in Paris. Fast forward a few centuries and the holiday translates to big business. After Christmas, Valentine's Day is the biggest spending occasion in the USA. The average adult shows out 200,000.

dollars, generating more than $20 billion in sales nationwide. The most popular gift, candy. Consumers will spend $3 billion on chocolate treats. If you're planning on saving some cash this Valentine's Day, be forewarned. Polls say 55% of Americans will consider leaving their partner if they don't get a good Valentine's Day gift. And here's something else you might not know. More than 9 million Americans will take a knee this week. It's the biggest marriage proposal day of the year.

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